Kevin Lyda wrote: > I've used LFS from time to time for work at two different companies. > First as a quick way to a hermetic build environment and then as an > educational tool. I would really like to contribute back. However I > got distracted when I discovered subversion was still being used. I'm > currently getting better with git and thought it might be an > interesting exercise to see how one ports a subversion repository to > git.
I appreciate your input. Right now, I don't really see an advantage to git for LFS. There are very few people that have expressed interest in changing the book, and honestly, I don't think changing the version control system will fix that. I don't really understand the problem with subversion. The commands needed by a non-editor are only: svn checkout svn update svn status svn diff Editors may need to do svn add svn del svn commit svn move svn propset svn copy Of those the only ones that are at all tricky are propset and maybe copy. One of the biggest changes needed in changing the version control system would be to add a git plugin from trac-hacks and make sure it works properly. If I were starting a new project, I would certainly consider git. However, LFS is a reasonably mature project. Making this level of change would require climbing up the learning curve. It appears to me to be more effort than it is worth. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
